Expanding-metal batten-strip.



W. G. BENSON & P. T. SCOTT. EXPANDING MET'AL BATTEN STRIP. APPLICATION FIL'ED JAN.13, 1912.

Patefited Feb. 18, 1913.

E3 Vl va /11 F005 WILLIAM C. BENSON AND FEED T. SCOTT, OF OWENSVILLE, INDIANA; SAID n1) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE E. DAUGHERTY, OF PRINCETON, INDIANA.

EXPANDING-METAL BATTEN-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Feb, 18, 1913.

Application filed January 13, 1912. Serial No. 671,041.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. BEN- soN and FEED T. soo'r'r, citizens of the United States, residing at Owensville, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented a newand useful Expanding Metal Batten-Strip; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which vit.appertains to make and use the'same.

This invention relates to a new and useful batten strip. Y

The main object of the invention is to provide a device of this design for filling and covering cracks in barns and. frame dwellings, the strips being arranged to overlap, so as to shed the water. v One of the features of the device, is the bending of the sheet metal upon itself; so that the bent portions are brought closely in contact, thus forming a longitudinal tongue, which enters the crack between the boards of the barn. The bent portions of the metal are bent at right angles, in ,dpposite directions. The right ahgled extending portions are arched upwardly fromthe board or lumber, so that as the lumber se'asons, the strip will expand. The'strip beingbent upon itself allows the same to expand as the lumber seasons. [The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed. In the drawings :-Figure l'is a view in elevation, showing one or more batten strips applied to a portion of-the side of a barn or the like, showing the strips overlapping.-

Fig.2 is a cross sectional view on'line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the strips. Fig. 4.- is a vieWsimilar to Fig. 2 showingthe edges of the strip embedded in the lumber instead of fastening the same by nails or sprigs.

Referring "more particularly to the drawings 1 designates the side of a barn or the like constructed batten strips arearranged in the cracks so as to overlap, in order to shed the water.

of the-various boards 2, between which cracks 3 are formed. The

Each strip 4 is composed of a length of sheet metal, bent upon itself as at 5, longi tudinally of its length, with the bent po'r= tions brought firmly. incontact with one another, thus forming a substantially sharp edged tongue, which enters the crack between the boards. The bent port-ions 6 are bent at right angles as at 7, forming the flanges 8. wardly as at 9 from the boards. apertures adjacent their longitudinal outer edges for the reception of nails or sprigs 11, in order t-o fasten the strips in place. As the lumber seasons the strips expand, because of being bent upon themselves and provided with the arches. In Fig. 4:, however, the flangesare bent upon themselves as-shown at 12, in order to form supple mental flanges 13, which are inclined to-' ward one another, and are embedded in the boards of the harm-thereby outer face of the lumber or the fastening the strip thereto instead of using nails or sprigs. Y

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A batten strip constructed from a pieceof sheet metal, bent longitudinally upon itself to form-a tongue of double thickness, adapt-, ed to'enter a space between two boards; the portions of the sheet metal, a short distance beyond thelongitudinal bend, being bent at right angles in opposite directions forming and terminating in second flanges, which are secured to said boards; said inclinedportions and th angularfbends constituting These flanges are arched out-- The flanges are provided with' flanges. which are arranged offset from and combined means to allow the strip to more efliciently expand as the boards season.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presenne of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. BENSON.

FERD T. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

LUTHER Benson, JAS. EJBENSON. 

